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Gordon Brown Quotes

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: british
Birth: February 20, 1951

Topics

Change Technology Community Power

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

Job Baseball People You Teach Watch

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

Time Democracy Internet Things Many

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

Good Music Face Think Better Seeing

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

Good Apple Pie Old English Favorite

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Beginning People Tell Century Wanted

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

Youth Outgrow Soon Defect Too

I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.

Alone Day School High School Feeling

People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it's a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination.

John Ralston Saul

Best Imagination People Victory End

I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become... breaking their own stereotypes. We usually think of them as barbarians, but there were aspects to their society that shows a tremendous level of civilization, sophistication and social advance.

History Society Think Interesting

The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I published some poems under a pen name in a literary magazine to see what it would feel like. It was fun. It was even a little thrilling.

Michael Redhill

Time Fun Brain Name Feel Pen

I was a great help-side defender in college, but as far as really wanting to lock somebody up, that was never really my focus.

Great Focus College Never Up Lock

Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.

Racism Small Chance Comedy Wrong

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